dmr e50 and chapter marks

[bobinga]

I know this has been beat into the ground, and I have researched the forum.
I am supposed to have auto chapter marks every 5 minutes.
Do I have to make a setting change or is there something wrong with this unit.

Copied my first home vcr tape circa 1989 and results were beautiful; but no chapter marks ( or whatever they are called). I also could not find info in manual about auto chapter marks.

I bought this open box from circuit city. They has 2. One for $429 and one for $379, same model, no brainer! , even scanned at higher price. I have a 30 day return, if I change my mind. And might to get a e80.

My additional investment for an e80 after no sales tax would just be a little more than $100 . I am apprehensive about internet buying and return. What is the failure or dependability rate of these machines. the phillips seem to have a high failure rate. anyone know about these Panasonics?

I have not begun to explore everything the e50 will do. Only trying to archive for now. This is day 3 of 30 if I am not pleased.

I have not been pleased with my time investment trying to use computer and ADVC100 to archive all these tapes. Thus the e50.

I was going to try and tweak and edit the video with MovieFactory, but it would not accept the audio and stripped it out. I am very simple minded and do not want to use several programs to do editing. I know how to use Pinnacle Studio 7, but the e50 output is not recognized by it.

Long Post, any thoughts.

Thank you much and God Bless
Bob

[handyguy]

You only get chapters if you finalize the disk. The chapter marks are there then & you can find them pushing the chapter number on the remote. e.g. 10 brings you to chapter ten.

Did you get a manual? If not might be some on panasonic.com

How many menu types can that model make? 9?

[piano632]

You only get chapters if you finalize the disk.

This is interesting...
If this is true, then I'd have to say the Sharp unit is superior to the Panasonic in terms of chapter marking. On the Sharp you can access all of the chapter marks even before the disc is finalized - at least with -RW discs. I haven't used any -R discs yet but I don't think it would be any different that way. Also on the Sharp you have the option of chapter marks every 3, 5, 10, 15, 30 minutes or none at all.
Panasonic needs to make some improvements I can see.

[Bob W]

You only get chapters if you finalize the disk.

This is interesting...
If this is true, then I'd have to say the Sharp unit is superior to the Panasonic in terms of chapter marking. On the Sharp you can access all of the chapter marks even before the disc is finalized - at least with -RW discs. I haven't used any -R discs yet but I don't think it would be any different that way. Also on the Sharp you have the option of chapter marks every 3, 5, 10, 15, 30 minutes or none at all.
Panasonic needs to make some improvements I can see.

I would have bought the Sharp recorder if it had a built in TBC (time bas corrector) like the Panasonic E50 I did buy does. I must say the recording quality of a VHS tape to DVD-R discs is nothing short of remarkable for the Panasonic. The finished discs quality is actually better than the source VHS tape IMO.

As for the chapter marks, I have no problem with the every five minutes automatic chapter marks of the Panasonic since you need to finalize the disc anyway for it to play on other DVD players.

[thoots]

Folks,

Perhaps this all has to do with "chapter marks" vs. "title marks." The former being the "automatic navigation points every five minutes," and the latter being "separate segments that allow you to name the section in the DVD menu." I described that pretty thoroughly a few days ago, here:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=172799

I'm pretty sure you can navigate to "title marks" prior to finalizing (not that I've tried this), but not "chapter marks" until after finalizing the DVD.

As for the Sharp's option to set the chapter marks at different points, I can't really see making fewer marks (i.e. 10, 15, 30 minutes), and I'm not really sure that making more marks (i.e. 3 minutes) would be any better either -- 5 minutes makes a whole lot of sense and works fine for me. All I can say is that, if I had such and option, I sure think I'd put it at 5 minutes, anyway...

thoots

[piano632]

I would have bought the Sharp recorder if it had a built in TBC (time base corrector)

It's possible that the Sharp may have a TBC. The description of the unit at B&H Photo says it has one, but none is mentioned in the manual or anywhere else. I have no real way of testing it. I don't think I have any tapes that are jittery enough to really tell if a TBC is there or not. Does anybody know for sure if the Sharp has a TBC or not?

[rayv2001]

The chapters is not a problem for me. Yeah they are there but not bothersome. My problem is that when I try to play my finalized dvd-r in another dvd player I get a slitght stutter (freeze) in the video and all those chapter marks. The audio is fine, just the video is a problem. I call Panasonic and they told to to try their "recomended" DVD-Rs (panasonic - of course or TDK). I have been using Memorex. Well i tried the TDK and guess what....SAME PROBLEM. The dvd-r is fine as long as i play it in the dmr e-50, but not on my other player. Any thoughts anyone???

:?:

[Bob W]

I would have bought the Sharp recorder if it had a built in TBC (time base corrector)

It's possible that the Sharp may have a TBC. The description of the unit at B&H Photo says it has one, but none is mentioned in the manual or anywhere else. I have no real way of testing it. I don't think I have any tapes that are jittery enough to really tell if a TBC is there or not. Does anybody know for sure if the Sharp has a TBC or not?

Yeah I still would like to know that myself.

[tdhg566]

On the DMR-E80H, (and possibly earlier machines) you only get auto chapter marks if you do NOT use DVD-R compatible mode. If you use that mode, auto 5 min chapter marks are dropped, and you need to manually insert markers, which are then converted to chapter marks during dubbing.

[Alfer]

You could always trade up to the Philips DVDR75

Bet it'll fit your needs...and it plays back DVD-R's too.

Specs:
http://www.consumer.philips.com/global/b2c/ce/catalog/assets/downloads/dvdr75_us_lft.pdf